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- Star Wars. [graphic novel] / by Barnes, Rodney,author.; Jeanty, Georges,illustrator.; Story, Karl C.,illustrator.; Rosenberg, Rachelle,colourist.; Caramagna, Joe,letterer.;
- Rated T.
- Subjects: Graphic novels.; Science fiction comics.; Extraterrestrial beings; Bounty hunters; Life on other planets; Extraterrestrial beings; Bounty hunters;
- The lock-up : a novel / by Banville, John,author.;
- In 1950s Dublin, in a lock-up garage in the city, the body of a young woman is discovered, an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford soon suspect foul play. The victim's sister, a newspaper reporter from London, returns to Dublin to join the two men in their quest to uncover the truth. But as they explore her links to a wealthy German family in County Wicklow, and to investigative work she may have been doing in Israel, they are confronted with an ever-deepening mystery. With relations between the two men increasingly strained, and their investigation taking them back to the final days of the Second World War, can they join the pieces of a hidden puzzle?
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Pathologists; Police; Quirke (Fictitious character : Black);
- In the blood [sound recording] : a thriller / by Carr, Jack(Joint pseudonym),author.; Porter, Ray,1965-narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
- Read by Ray Porter."A woman boards a plane in the African country of Burkina Faso having just completed a targeted assassination for the state of Israel. Two minutes later, her plane is blown out of the sky. Over 6,000 miles away, former Navy SEAL James Reece watches the names and pictures of the victims on cable news. One face triggers a distant memory of a Mossad operative attached to the CIA years earlier in Iraq--a woman with ties to the intelligence services of two nations ... a woman Reece thought he would never see again. Reece enlists friends new and old across the globe to track down her killer, unaware that he may be walking into a deadly trap"--Publisher's description.
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Reece, James (Fictitious character); United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States. Navy. SEALs; Aircraft accidents; Assassins; Veterans;
- The sound of freedom / by Kacer, Kathy,1954-;
- Includes bibliographical references and Internet address.Life is becoming dangerous for the Jews of Krakow in 1936 with incidents of violence and persecution increasing day by day. Twelve-year-old Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but he is reluctant to give up his position as an acclaimed clarinetist in the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra. After barely escaping from an attack by a group of violent thugs, it becomes clear that the family must leave. Anna's father auditions for the famous Bronislaw Huberman, a world renowned violinist, who is searching for Jewish musicians to play in a new orchestra in Palestine. This poignant story is based on real events in pre-war Poland and Palestine. After saving 700 Jews and their famiies, Bronislaw Huberman went on to establish what later became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.LSC
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Jews; Fathers and daughters; Musicians; World War, 1939-1945;
- Clive Cussler fire strike / by Maden, Mike,author.; Cussler, Clive,creator.;
- "When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel. Cabrillo's crew have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. The Oregon team must journey from the Amazon rainforest to an abandoned monastery in Eritrea before a final showdown in the mountains of Yemen, using every shred of courage and cunning they can muster to disable the ship-killer missile before the Arabian Sea becomes a mass grave"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Cabrillo, Juan (Fictitious character); Genetic engineering; Intelligence service; Ship captains; Terrorism;
- Clive Cussler fire strike [sound recording] / by Maden, Mike,author.; Brick, Scott,narrator.; Cussler, Clive,creator.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
- Read by Scott Brick."When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel. Cabrillo's crew have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. The Oregon team must journey from the Amazon rainforest to an abandoned monastery in Eritrea before a final showdown in the mountains of Yemen, using every shred of courage and cunning they can muster to disable the ship-killer missile before the Arabian Sea becomes a mass grave"--
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Cabrillo, Juan (Fictitious character); Genetic engineering; Intelligence service; Ship captains; Terrorism;
- Clive Cussler fire strike [text (large print)] / by Maden, Mike,author.; Cussler, Clive,creator.;
- "When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel. Cabrillo's crew have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. The Oregon team must journey from the Amazon rainforest to an abandoned monastery in Eritrea before a final showdown in the mountains of Yemen, using every shred of courage and cunning they can muster to disable the ship-killer missile before the Arabian Sea becomes a mass grave"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Novels.; Cabrillo, Juan (Fictitious character); Genetic engineering; Intelligence service; Ship captains; Terrorism;
- The devil's hand [sound recording] / by Carr, Jack(Joint pseudonym),author.; Porter, Roy,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
- Read by Ray Porter.It's been twenty years since 9/11. Two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and embarked on twenty years of war. The enemy has been patient, learning, and adapting. And the enemy is ready to strike again. A new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. He’s a young, popular, self-made visionary, but he’s also a man with a secret. Halfway across the globe a regional superpower struggles with sanctions imposed by the Great Satan and her European allies, a country whose ancient religion spawned a group of ruthless assassins. Faced with internal dissent and extrajudicial targeted killings by the United States and Israel, the Supreme Leader puts a plan in motion to defeat the most powerful nation on earth.
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Political fiction.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States. Navy. SEALs; Biological weapons; Terrorism; Terrorism; Veterans;
- The spymasters : how the CIA directors shape history and the future / by Whipple, Chris,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."Only eleven men and one woman are alive today who have made the life-and-death decisions that come with running the world's most powerful and influential intelligence service. With unprecedented, deep access to nearly all these individuals plus several of their predecessors, Chris Whipple tells the story of an agency that answers to the United States president alone, but whose activities--spying, espionage, and covert action--take place on every continent ... [He pulls] back the curtain on the world's elite spy agencies and [shows] how the CIA partners--or clashes--with counterparts in Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. Topics covered in the book include attempts by presidents to use the agency for their own ends, simmering problems in the Middle East and Asia, rogue nuclear threats, and cyberwarfare"--Amazon.com.
- Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States. Central Intelligence Agency;
- If walls could speak : my life in architecture / by Safdie, Moshe,1938-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world's most influential and memorable structures-from the 1967 modular housing scheme in Montreal known as "Habitat" and the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel, to the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas and the Marina Bay Sands development and extraordinary Jewel Changi airport interior garden and waterfall in Singapore. For Safdie, the way a space functions is fundamental; he is deeply committed to architecture as a social force for good, believing that any challenge, including extreme population density and environmental distress, can be addressed with solutions that enhance community and uplift the human spirit. Safdie always refers to the "silent client" an architect mustultimately serve: the people who live, work in, or experience a building. If Walls Could Speak takes readers behind the veil of an essential yet mysterious profession to explain through Safdie's own experiences how an architect thinks and works-"from thespark of imagination through the design process, the model-making, the politics, the engineering, the materials." Relating memorable stories about what has inspired him-from childhoods in Israel and Montreal to the projects and personalities worldwide that have captured his imagination-Safdie reveals the complex interplay that underpins every project and his vision for the role architecture can and should play in society at large. Illustrated throughout with drawings, sketches, photographs, and documentsfrom his firm's voluminous archives that illuminate his stories, If Walls Could Speak ends with a chapter outlining seven projects Safdie would pursue around the world if resources and will were no issue and the choices were his to make. A book like no other, If Walls Could Speak will forever change the way you look at and appreciate any built structure"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Safdie, Moshe, 1938-; Architects;
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